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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 1996 16:48:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Steve <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        Neal Rigney <neal@pernet.net>
Cc:        bwatts@nwohio.com, John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Modems not answering 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.961022164743.124H-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.93.961022093927.6951A-100000@jennifer.pernet.net>

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You have to set the modem to auto answer - unix wont do it for you.  You
must also set the modem to a constant baud rate, that being the baud rate
you set as default when you set up your serial ports.  

On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Neal Rigney wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Oct 1996 bwatts@nwohio.com wrote:
> 
> > I have setup a Boca multiport 16 and can now communicate with all of the ports.  
> > However when you call in to the server it will not answer or if I use a
> > US Robotics Modem it will answer if I set the dip switch to answer
> > automatically.
> > However it will only give me giberish .  Any Ideas?
> > 
> > bwatts@nwohio.com
> > 
> > 
> 
> Check the speed you have the USR at.  If you issue a at&w at a baud(say
> 38400), the USR will assume you ALWAYS want that speed.
> 
> Don't know anything about the Bocas.  Sorry.
> 
> --
> Neal Rigney, PERnet Communications, (409)729-4638
> neal@mail.pernet.net
> 
> 
> 




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